The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

GUISE

/ˈɡaɪz/5 letters

Definition of GUISE

noun

A customary way of speaking or acting; a fashion, a manner, a practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English guise, gise, gyse, from Old French guisse, guise, vise (“guise, manner, way”), from Old Frankish *wīsa (“manner, way, fashion”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ (“manner, way”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, view, behold, perceive”). Cognate with Old High German wīsa (“way, manner”), Old English wīse (“way, manner”), Dutch wijze (“way, manner”). More at wise.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GUISE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 56 boards so far. 165 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 56 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
56
Boards found on
17
First board
109
Latest board
6
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 17, 6 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

tevz

on Day 17, 6 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GUISE
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GUISE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EGISU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start GUISE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GUISE?

OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 17 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER

Share GUISE

The OUTLIER card for GUISEDownload image